Word: mountain
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...while it seemed that one first lady might not make it to her husband's inauguration. Mary Chamberlin Scranton, 44, whose husband Bill assumes office in Pennsylvania on Jan. 15, is an outgoing, athletic type. Last week at Elk Mountain, near Forest City, Pa., the Scrantons and their children went skiing. Mary and a friend, Lawrence Coughlin, took a chair lift to the summit, got stranded near the top. Down below, unaware of his wife's predicament, Bill Scranton began searching in vain. At length, Mary and Coughlin came skiing down to the lodge. They had been stopped...
James Baldwin, 38, has brown skin, black hatreds, and a brilliant literary style. In his novels (Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country) and essays, Baldwin has written of things he knows well: his native Harlem, homosexuality, France (where he has lived as a sometime self-exile, supported partly by U.S. foundation grants)-and what he considers the all but hopeless estrangement between the American Negro and white...
...disputed land is the size of Minnesota, lakes and all. It falls from the wind-whipped mountains of Gilgit and Ladakh in the north to the idyllic Vale of Kashmir. In the Himalayas, primitive mountain tribesmen keep herds of graceful, sure-footed Kashmir goats, whose soft fleece becomes the cashmere of Fifth Avenue and Regent Street; the cool lakes near Kashmir's capital city of Srinagar are dotted with the elegant houseboats of wealthy Indians...
Building Character. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School owes its birth to Andrew Jackson Ritchie, a "mountain people" Georgian who worked his way through Harvard at the turn of the century, returned in 1903 to found the Rabun Gap trade school. When it burned down in 1926, Ritchie pooled his efforts with Georgia Presbyterians, whose own Nacoochee Institute had burned the same year. Wisconsin-born President Anderson, whose doctorate is from Columbia University's Teachers College, has run the place since 1956, with a goal of character building and the faith ("not just a platitude") that "prayer changes things...
Renaissance Man. Beefy, ebullient Emile Bustani, who runs all this from a Beirut office littered with statues and drawings of bushy-tailed cats, is a kind of one-man Arab renaissance. Born in a primitive mountain village and raised in an American mission orphanage, he worked his way through the American University in Beirut by waiting on tables, then sailed steerage to the U.S., where he earned an engineering degree at M.I.T...